Drupa: Xerox CEO to Host Live Webcast on May 29, Making Breakthrough News in Production Printing
May 22, 2008
Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) will host a live webcast from drupa, the world’s premier printing show, on May 29. The company will reveal technological breakthroughs that showcase its continued leadership in the digital production printing industry. Read more
Drupa: The Best Gets Better: Xerox Elevates High Performance and Image Quality of iGen3 Digital Press
May 22, 2008
The printing industry’s most productive high-speed digital color press has just taken its image quality, productivity and profitability to a whole new level.
Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) today introduced the Automated Color Quality Suite Press Matching System, for its Xerox iGen3® 90 and 110 Digital Production Presses, offering high performance plus quality that matches offset printing. The new Automated Color Quality Suite enables faster press set up, quicker time to production, greater color stability and automated Pantone-color matching.
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Drupa: Pageflex Collaborates with Adobe to Offer Adobe InDesign Server to Customers
May 21, 2008
Pageflex®, a division of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS, www.bitstream.com) and a leading developer of enterprise variable data publishing and web-to-print solutions, announced today that in the future, Pageflex customers will be able to take advantage of the powerful Adobe® InDesign® workflow. Adobe will be welcoming Pageflex as a participant in its booth in Hall 7 / 7.0 E at drupa 2008 in Düsseldorf, Germany, May 29-June 11. Pageflex also will be exhibiting at drupa 2008 in Hall 7a, Booth B13. Read more
Drupa: The next generation in production printing Ricoh at drupa 2008
May 21, 2008
Ricoh is demonstrating the next generation in digital production printing at drupa 2008. It will also show, for the first time in Europe, the Ricoh Pro C900 and C900s, the new colour digital printer offering high-volume printing. In addition drupa 2008 marks the first anniversary of the joint venture between Ricoh and IBM’s printing Systems Division, InfoPrint Solutions Company. Read more
Drupa: Digital Print Innovators Prepare to Shine; Xerox Seeks Printing Innovation Award Entries
May 19, 2008
It’s time for digital innovators across the globe to shine! Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) announces the call for entries in the seventh annual Printing Innovation with Xerox Imaging (PIXI) Awards. The multinational competition’s theme this year is “Shine,” and recognizes the most innovative and effective work customers are printing with Xerox digital systems. For the first time, this year’s PIXI awards will recognize print providers using Xerox production solutions in an environmentally friendly way as well as a new business application category. Read more
Drupa: KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Production Color Presses Approved and Licensed by Pantone
May 19, 2008
There is new indisputable evidence of the quality and color consistency of KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Color Production Presses. Pantone, Inc., a world leader in color standards, licensed all KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Production Color Presses as approved for the PANTONE® MATCHING SYSTEM® and the new PANTONE GOE™ System.
Achieving Pantone approval is confirmation that a production device is capable of achieving approved PANTONE Colors. The color range is larger than ever, with Pantone’s introduction in late 2007 of the new PANTONE GOE System, which adds more than 2,000 unique colors to the just less than 1,200 in the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM. Read more
Drupa: Topics at Moog Booth on Drupa 2008
May 19, 2008
H. C. Moog GmbH Maschinen für Druck und Papier Ruedesheim am Rhein / Miehlen im Taunus / Germany Hall 3 Stand 3A35 at Drupa Duesseldorf:
A team of competent consultants of Gravure Press Manufacturer Moog will receive interested people at the booth and explain solutions around high quality printing, refinement and possibilities of print-production in the wide range of sales packages with sheet-fed gravure printing. Read more
Drupa: I.E.S. INNOVATIONS AT DRUPA – HALL 12 STAND 12B80
May 19, 2008
I.E.S. International Expanding Shafts Srl, an Italian leader manufacturer of expanding air shafts and chucks, has specialized in the production of differential rewinding shafts with ball locks for slitter rewinders.
Its already wide range of products has been increased with two novelties that will be exhibited at DRUPA.
The first one is the differential rewinding shaft type FDS7/3L This shaft enables the use of cores with high tolerances or with differences in the internal diameter. The cores locking is secured by a double row of expanding balls that grant a perfect locking even of very narrow cores.
The second innovation is the differential rewinding shaft type FDS8/3LM for 6” cores that combines both lightness and resistance thanks to the raw materials used in its manufacturing. Also this type of shaft is available for 18 mm minimum cut widths.
Drupa: Nipson Displays Unsurpassed Print Productivity Solutions at drupa
May 18, 2008
Digital Production Press manufacturer showcases enhanced technology in new products that offer higher speed, “offset” quality, and the broadest functionality.
Nipson’s exhibit at the upcoming drupa exposition in Düsseldorf, Germany will showcase the unsurpassed productivity available from the latest models of its VaryPress™ high speed digital presses. Recent enhancements to Nipson’s unique printing technology will also be evident, delivering its best 600 dpi print quality ever. The VaryPress line encompasses a range of products that provide speed, reliability, quality, and economics to high volume print operations worldwide, including two new products that further extend the line’s ability to address the broadest range of print applications. Read more
Drupa: Guided tours of drupa highlights for show visitors.
May 16, 2008
Now that most exhibitors have announced the new products that they will be showing on their stands, it is already clear that no other drupa will have had so much innovation on display as drupa 2008 — which makes the drupa Highlights Tours being organized by Messe Düsseldorf in several languages even more attractive.
Three of the guided tours are specifically devoted to printing technologies. The Offset printing Highlights Tour (2) covers not just new presses but innovations in peripherals and consumables. The itinerary takes in Goss, Heidelberg, Koenig & Bauer, Komori, MAN Roland, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Ryobi. New formats, shorter change-over times, new inline finishing options and a higher level of automation will be the central themes of Drupa on this tour. Read more
